By Amanda Rose | Half Pint Fun
With Easter coming up and our property filled with narcissus and daffodils, the boys and I have been playing around with dying flowers. If anyone ever tells you that plants do not take up chemicals from the soil and water, you can give them a bouquet of these flowers. Aren’t those crazy? The Half Pints […]
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By Amanda Rose | Natural Body Care
Amanda’s note: Here is another wonderful contribution from Ramya Venkateshwaran who writes from her home in India. Ramya describes her homemade herbal mouthwash to fight bad breath. Find her on her website WildTurmeric.net for more ideas on healthy living. ~~~Homemade mouth washes are easy to make and is equally effective like a store bought ones. […]
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Purely for your weekend entertainment, should you have some Jiffy Pop laying around, maybe it should be hanging around instead. Here’s one of everybody’s favorite viral memes made into an actual video. Alastair will show you how to make your own “redneck fire alarm.” He’s completely out of control at the end there mainly because […]
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The Half Pints face Spam in this Mystery tasting. They react predictably with plenty of squished faces and moans but then the video takes an unexpected turn as Alastair tastes canned Spam. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Half Pint video without the kids bringing in a chicken to taste the Spam too, so you […]
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You guys know I’ve got two boys running around here and these guys insist on Easter excitement. It’s their favorite holiday. They would love to hunt for eggs all year round. We dye eggs in natural food dyes, we dye them in those little round tablets that you can buy at the grocery store, we […]
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By Amanda Rose | Half Pint Fun
The Mentos and soda projects really are a lot of fun. In this one, the kids “hang” Mentos (using scotch tape) in some smaller plastic Diet Coke bottles. They proceed to make a giant mess in the cul-de-sac below our driveway. What can I say? It’s a great use for sodas. 😉
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